Brian Williams complains about fake news - just 21 months after he lost his job on NBC Nightly News for telling made up stories
Brian Williams has called out Donald Trump's transition team for spreading fake news stories.
Williams, who was suspended for six months and lost his spot as NBC Nightly News anchor for exaggerating stories about his time in Iraq and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, blasted the President-elect's team on MSNBC on Tuesday night.
'Fake news played a role in this election and continues to find a wide audience,' the 57-year-old said.
Brian Williams has called out Donald Trump's transition team for spreading fake news stories
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Williams (left, in Iraq in 2007, and right, hosting Meet the Press in 2008), who was suspended for six months and lost his spot as NBC Nightly News anchor for exaggerating stories about his time in Iraq and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, blasted the President-elect's team
Bill O'Reilly, host of the O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News channel couldn't resist having a dig at Williams with the above tweet
It comes after Williams was forced to admit in February 2015 he wasn't aboard a helicopter hit and forced down by enemy fire during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
He had told versions of the story about how the aircraft was shot down for more than a decade.
Crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment's Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire had previously said the ex-NBC anchor was nowhere near the aircraft or two other Chinooks that had been flying in formation when they took fire.
According to the crew members, Williams arrived about an hour later on another helicopter after the other three had made an emergency landing.
'I said things that weren't true,' Williams told Matt Lauer in an interview on Today in June 2015, 'I own up this.'
'This was clearly ego driven, the desire to better my role in a story,' he said.
Williams had previously been the most-watched nightly news anchor and just last year he had signed a highly lucrative contract reportedly worth about $10million a year for five years.
An NBC News inquiry last April found Williams had exaggerated his reporting on a total of 11 occasions including in his award-winning reporting of Hurricane Katrina.
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